by Trevor Daya-Winterbottom | 31 May, 2018
The Minister for the Environment, David Parker, has set out a bold programme for environmental law reform.[1] In particular, the reform programme includes amendments to the National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management (NPS-FM) designed to prevent further...
by Trevor Daya-Winterbottom | 6 Apr, 2018
Principled approaches to environmental law are much in vogue. The most recent set of principles to emerge onto the world scene pertain to water. They were encapsulated in the Brasilia Declaration of Judges on Water Justice of 21 March 2018. The catalyst for the...
by Trevor Daya-Winterbottom | 15 Feb, 2018
The Minister for Climate Change has launched a bold work programme for the period 2018- regarding climate change that received endorsement from the Cabinet on 18 December 2017.[1] The centre-piece of the programme is the Zero Carbon Bill that is proposed to be...
by Trevor Daya-Winterbottom | 6 Nov, 2017
On 20 August 2017 the then Labour opposition leader, Jacinda Ardern, announced that climate change would be a priority issue if the Labour party was elected to govern New Zealand, stating that “Climate change is my generation’s nuclear-free moment”. Against this...
by Trevor Daya-Winterbottom | 25 Oct, 2017
The recently published papers from “Environmental Adjudication in the 21st Century Symposium” held in Auckland on 12 April 2017 provide the catalyst for an informed discussion about the principles that should underpin an “Environmental Rule of Law”.[1] This discussion...
